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E I vitICV. OF '1 . () CK S THIS DAY AT TIVELVIL o'CLQCK CrYnsols .12 IN* 1,0N1)0.N, MONDAY, MAJtCH 19, 1810. f I MAILS. AAR.IV ev —z Dublin. Dui, 2 Gottenburgh, t Lisbon, - •t Dublin, 4 Waterford. 6E iA SOLEM QUIS UICERE FALSU.II AUDEAT ? 'Yesterday Dutch Papers fc; - the 16th inst. reached town. They are, like; most of those which we have , lately received, filled with accounts respelling the approaching marriage between BUONAPARiII and the Archduchess of• Austria. That unfortunate Princess is said to . have written' a Letter. to BUONAPARTt - with ha-r own hand, arid to.have sent him her pic ture. Several hints are thrown out in these Papers of the advantages which Austria is to reeeive by this match 5 it is even said that some of her provinces' will be restored to her. It would be the excess of absurdity to siippose that BUONAPARTE would Con s sent to restore any territory which would contribute to restore the Houseof Austria to any, thing like her ancient power ; he may indeed•degrade Austria, by compelling her to accept a portion .of . the territo ries of some plundered Prince, acid he may wear , . the mask of friendship, while he makes use of her.- to promote his, own views, and to complete the subjugation of the Continent, but Itwhen that object is accomplished, Austria will fallin her turn. It would seem 83 if BUONTAPART4 was careful, upon this occasion, to• omit no. circumstance Which could wound the feelings of the Ereperer FRANCIS, or the destined Empress of 'France. We have, upon a for mer occasion, noticed the exectition of the gallant -HOPPER, one of the best and bravest subjects of the Emperor of Austria, on the very - day on which the contratifor the marriage was signed: The sele&ion ofT . BERTHIEft to condu& the Archduchess from Vienna, must have been the etre& bf design . . SBR- TrliEtc is to have greatly contributed, by his skill, to the defeat of the Austrian' s at . Wagram, a defeat which has thrown Austria at the feet of France, and forced the Emperor Ftrasicts.to sur render his daughter to become the , wife BUONA FXRTg. . BEIV:HIER h3s receivedthe:oo:ot Prince of Wagram, ain3 he is the man choSeS to receive the - Archduchess,fronalier father. But this-is not all ; the person :appninitalio. meetthe Archduchess in. the confines of the Austrian dominions, is Madame IYltt aka, ;ioie liabband . tia" LiSorpeal the :-Prone of the Arclidaa' arandtather. Yet this. is- the' -0 marriage which •is to pioduce such advantages and ao Much hap ) ';iriess to Austria. • Our ile(lrs will-d 6 us the justice to reCol'eo, that when 5a av" the account in the French Pa_ p :s °Cale battle between the French and Spanish Armieain-Cataionia, we-expressed our opinion that the Fretich - accounts of their viaory were greatly exaggerated. The details contained in these. Papers confirm that opinion. It appears that the Spaniards attacked the French in several positions in one day,. and the French admit that' the attacks were made with skill and supported with - bravery. AUG 1 3. ,.. REAu certainly claimi adeciaiVe vitior , y ; but whin he comes to speak of the result of the battle, he says, the Spaniards weree-disappointed in the objea of their attack, which was to cut air the French 'com munication. When the French obtain a complete, vi - tory, they do not content themselVea with saying, that their opponents were • disappointed. Au, GBRRAU ,says, that the Spaniards had 300 killed, and 32.50 . taken prisoneri, 'and that the. Freitch had 172 killed, and yet he, achnita that the Spaniards 'fought with great courage and p - erseverance. It is difficult to believe that in a battle so fought, twenty one • Spaniards were killed for every Frenchman ; bat When AUGBRRAU talks of taking 3250 'prison ers,, including twenty-five officers of all ranks, :he malitsan assertion that will excite a smile upon the , cauntenance.of every military man. , 1 We con►radiaed on Saturday the report so con fidently-circulated, about the arrival.Of ; Gen. Durtoc in this country. The fait -no perpon Whatever has arrit•cxl trogi France; the Dispatches were taken out of the Flag of Truce by the Cherokee, and for . - w ;Ided to the . ,Transport Board. Whether they o wain any proposition of a pacific nature is a pohlt. upon which we cannot undertake .0 speak confi dentl}•; but' we have every reason to believe that the communication related "merely aa- exchange of prisotteo. An arrangement we Oepeve, taken place between the two countries, in consequence of which neither the British Strgeons taken at T,,la veia, nor 't he French Surgeons taken at Flushing, aro to be, considered as trisoners of war. The French frigate captured by the Horatio is called the Necessite, pierced for 40 Ins, and had 28 mounted, laden with naval stores, and was bound for the Isle of France :,she haa arrived atPor►s. mouth, NAVAL NEWS PLYMOUTII,MARCR 17.—Arrived its Majesty's ship Plover from a croize; the .Aid . transport -from Deptford; 'the Dart, BARTLETT ' from Poole-;* Pi t gilant, GAY, from Newtiitle ; :54ii, - CoATn;from London ; Tlilliam , Simowicx, Eiriiiude, HURD, Hobson, S2ANFO4I;; ! , Effort, Thom Li r Salcicia,ADArbi- SON, and Hawke, S MITH , from Sainderlanit; and:the Thomas, BROKENSHA, from Neath. . . This morning the five . cartels , with': pakt.of the • • French prisoners taken ay'S.t..Domingo, sailed for MOrlaix, together With' the Colliri gwood, and and Ann cartels, with sick and wounded FrenCh prisoners,' for the' same place ; also . Sgiled 'the 4nv, :M`DoNALD, for Malta; the . /h/liam; DAVIES, 'for Fowey, to load for Cadiz; the Ziphyr, FITZSIMONS,• for Belfast; and the Rom DARLING, for Cork. Put back by contrary winds the Porcia EaSt man,' for theivei. Arrived his, 'Majesty's ship ,Daphne from Ports mouth; the . Hound and Devastation bombs from Sheerness ; 1 the ffittiam, FA WKENER, and Amity, PER RE'roN, 'from Londoni -the . Havant, COOPER, from -Arundel the Barnevelt, GARRETT, Orient, DOUGLAS, Caroline, CARR, Good. inient, WATERS,, New Concord, HERRING, and Jivia, ARNOTT, from . SUriderland. Went up into Barnpool his Majesty's ship Fa- vourile. Arrived the "Etna bomb from the Eastward. Sailed the Basilith gun-brig for Cadiz with dis patches : she has on board Lieut.-Colonel MAC. DONALD, Assistant-Adjutant-General. PORTSMOUTH; - MARCH Ja.—This ,morning dr.: - rived the Horatio frigate, dapt. Scorr, with a fine French frigate, her ptize, called La Necessiid, bound from Bourdeatix to the Isle of France, with naval stores, &c: ; it is supposed she has a large quantity of dollars on'board. • ; Yesterday sailed the Alert sloop of war, Captain RENNY, with a convoy of about 20 saiLfor New foundland ; t i tle Port Mahon sloop of war, Capt. LAWSON, with a convoy for Guernsey ; .La Sophie sloop of war, Capt. LOCKYBR, with a &Invoy for Cork; Royafist sloop of war, Capt. MAXWELL, and Dapper gun brig, Lieut. HARFORD, oa a CrPiZe. The Zenobia brig gives convoy instructions to the trade bound to tae West Indies. ' SHERRNESS, MARCH I 7.—Arrived the Bruiser gun-brig. Went out of Harbour, aid anch o red the Great Nore the Paz schooner, - • His Majesty's ships Diligence, ~Woolwich, and Satriiia, were paid up to six months. • MARcii.lB.—Arrived his Majesty's brigs Castilian, Pro.cpero, and Ettiest ; the Tc; ! wer Tvader with vo iunteers and impressed men tot' the fiet. ' Sailed his Majesty's ship - Sabring, Captain Tu. 1..A - ItDp . for Portsmouth, , . The following ships received orders to put them selves under theorders of Sir JAMES SAUMAKEZ, to proceed to the Baltic, viz. the Plantagenet, Lion, Dilligence, Alexandria . , Flanzer, and -Snipe. FALMOUTH,' MARCH 16.-. Sailed L'Espiegle fri gate for the West -Indies. DEAL, MARCH 18,—Carne down from the River the Grand Turk for •New'York, and the Lusitania for Rio Janeiro. 'Capt. Yno, Of the Navy, has received his Ma. jestrs 'permission to wear the insignia of ,a .Knight Commander. of the Royal Portuguese Military-Or der of St. Bento d'Avis, conferred on, him by the Prince Regent, for his gallant conduE..a,t the re duaion of the Island of Cayenne. • 'NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.--Capt. WEST, to the Sultan; Capt. - H. E. R; BAKER, to the Ulysses; Capt.. STAIR DOUGLAS, to the, Africa ;. Capt. DILKES, to the Orpheus, vice TONYN, deceased; 'Capt. G. DAVIES, to the Philomel, vice CRAWLEY, .deceased; Capt. PATTERSON, of the Star, to the Pornpee; Capt. V. V. BA,LLAn.o, to. the Slatira, vice Boys, deceased ; Capt. PRESTON, of the Asp, to the" Blonde ; Lieut. 114‘CuLt.ouon, to command the Asp ; Lieut. Hon. J. Gong, to command the Scorpion; Capt. ROBILLIARD, to the Wurtrierci - ; Capt. FERRIE, to the - Savage;' Lieut. FLYNN, to 'command' the Punta Captain LAWSON,. to the Thracian; Capt. HATTON, to the Pert Mahon. A' Court Martial was. held on Monday, on board the Utile sloop lying at Yarmouth, od a seaman be longing-to the Desiree, for striking one of his Offi ceri, and. using mutinous language.. The unfor tfinate man, who was tried at his own request, re ceved sentence of death. . . The brave Captain SIIOIITLAND, of the Joninz (who was so desperately wounded in his* well fought action with lour French frigates, on the ,coast of America, .some months since, 'aPd was 4,pri.soner on par , .. , le at Gliadaloope); died elght hours after the.surreuder of that island. The last accounts from General MA ITLAND re present Ceyl.4l to be a state of perfed irampAil lity. The King of CANDY had dismissed certain,cls .7 savees who were nufri,•ndly to the Briiid),,andhad given every fa , :dity 4nd security to comfrierciat:in tercoUrse between , the Engli,h territory and .the-in terior.' The Bonne Ciloyenne, Captain CYCONNatt, is ap pointed Cot -VI At Poosinouth; for and Halifax ; and the Alert, Capt. `IIENt.Y, for foundland. FRENCH AND DUTCH PARERS. PARTS, MARCH 11.—An order 'which has been issued by thelrefeeforship of the POlice, relative to the preparations for the publidceremotties which are to take place on . the marriage of the Emperor, con tains a great number of regulations for 'clearing the streets of all building materials, rubbish, and other _t_hitgs v.hich might interrupt, the processions. 'All :cliches in les Champs Elysies are to Oe filled`up. •.- - The Champs Elyseei •have been transformed into -a vast work, where about 400 men are a&ivelv em ployed in forthing the wooden frame of the Tri 7 unAphalArch of the Star. The 'horsegrenadiers of the Imperial Guards set out.on Friday for Compiegne; Soissons, and Rheims, where they will wait the arrival of the Empress Maria-Louisa. The portrait of, his. Majesty„ which was sent to Vienna for the Empress Maria-Louisa; .was painted by M. Saint. The Madrid Gazettes,frotu the 15th to the 19th of February, contain differept articles from Seville; Madrid', and Grenada, which give very satisfaaory details respecting the good disposition which prevails throughout Andalusia. Whenever the King ap pears, lie is received with the most unbounded de unOutrations, of joy.. His condescension and affabi lity win all hearts. The. Spaniards, now compar ing the state of anarchy and alarm in. which they existed, with the order, tranquility, and return of confidence, for which they are indebted to their 'Sovereign, - 'are 'thereby the -bet ter enabled ,to esti mate the advantages which . they may, expert from his paternal government. PARIS, MARCH 1 2.--We understand that the marriage of the Emperor with the ,Archditchess Maria Louisa, was to be celebrated yesterday.(Sun— day) at Vienna, that the Empress is to leave that capital qn Tuesday, and that she will arrive on the 25th at Compiegne. His Majesty is to receive his august spouse between Compiegne and Soissuns. Iris added, that magnificent tents are ere Bed in the forest for the reception of her Majesty the Empress. The Emperor hunted yesterday in the. Bois de Bou logne. On iiis.return from the chace at two o'clock; be presided at the meeting of the Council 'of State. 'Balls are to be given on the celebration of the.Stn peror's marriage, by the city of Paris and the Im perial Guard. Staircases are to be formed. on the external sides of the grand gallery of Louvre, .by 'which the persons will ascend who are to be ad mitted to witness the religious ceremony of the mar riage of the EMperor. The Moniteur announces that M. Collin, first Chef d'OrEce to the Emperor, attended him yester- , day with iCeS, made of they syrup of grapes, Which had been sent to his Majesty' by M. Parmantier ; they were equal to any prepared, with the best re fined sugar Several of. the Austrian States have obtained leave to present addresses to the Emperor, congratulating him on the happy marriage of his . daughter Maria VIENNA, FEB. 24.—The portrait -which the Ern-, peror Napoleon has sent to the, Arch DucheSs is an exquisite piniature, surrounded with The richest chatnomis. , - The greatest wasters of this capital are' at present employed on the portrait of the Princess. , The most 'act ive preparations are making for. itie brilliant fetes wi,i 'kart. to s , ,cteed rack other daily. Men -are working day and eight feting up plat forms and orOments•iii the Church of St. AUgus otiue, where the-marriage ceremony is to be pO - Ti.e whole city is to be illuminated on the day of 'the marriage. Allegorical transparencies, emblems, and inscriptions, are preparing every where. The expences. of the illuminations of the Imperial Pa lace alone will.amount to 40,000 florins. , . The Joy .which prevails is the more animated, as .after so sanguinary a war, and such a period of de solation, it .was not expeeted that the first result of peace should be so happy an event. The whole ne' l ' , ! :gociation, a; we have already said, was enveloped in 'the most Complete mystery; and; before the re 4 turn of the Austrian courier, there scarce existed a..vague.rumout of this.marriage. In .fine, the . pidity with which we have passed frOm:th,e stare of war to that of peace and 'happiness, is remarkable. The Court and State carriages, which hail been stint tQ . the extremity of Hungary during the war, are' not yet returned, and are driven day and night with 'post-horses, in order to -arrive:inlime. It is said that, the French Emperor will meet the. Empress at Compiegne or Chalons-sur-Marne. • Since the news of the, marriage of our Arch Duchess, _more specie has appeared in circulation,, 'and particularly gold, which is a proof of confidence' in the stability of the. present state of things. The first families of the Austrian Monarchy ar& arriting here to participate in the pLiblic joy. " In the space of two . -hours after the , nett s of the marriage was made public by the Court, ,20Q .esta fetes set off from the Post-Office, for eye !) , Mi nister wished to transmit the intelligence to his` Court, and every merchant to his correspondents. BAILA, FEB. the Bth of .January the Circle of Balla took the oath of fidelity to'th e Ki ng ' of Saxony, as Grand Duke of Warsaw, and was incorporated in the Grand Dudiy.. HAMBURGH, MARCH . 3,—The ice, with which; the Elbe was covered, 'broke up.- under Zollen Spieeker on the 27th 'ultimo; in . the - evening, and ., next dak, several vessels arrived here from that neighbourhood. Our French garrison now consists of, 3600 men. ' AUGSBURGHi MARCH 3.—We are assured that in 1 the course of this month the changes and augmen -1 tations of .the States of several Princes of the Rhe nish Confederacy will be officially published. 1 HANOVER., MARCH 7.—On the occasion of this country being occupied by the troops of his Majesty the 'King of Westphalia ; the following Proclama tion was issued in his Majesty's name: . . HANovattlANs The Emperor, my exalted bro ther, ha's transterred to me,' by a convention Von cliicied at Paris, on the, 14th January, - of this year, all his rightsAtud claims on your ,country, and incor porated it witl► my kingdom. His Deputies hive delivered it to me, and Lthis day take poi , esion Ut it ; .you are henceforth to enjoy the valuable tage of being relieved from the painful state tit un certainty in winch you -have hilhetto lingered, and for ever united. with a Stale, which, for tite.tuture, will secure you from all attacks of Continental Powers, and which will also knoW how ickprote4 ynu from insult, tvhich might be afttimpted in the worse of a maritime war. The wretchedness ;o which, you have hitherto been expo,ed,' cahoot 'vita render you more thaaltful for tine happiness ,ind tganquility which you are now to enjoy. Your .loyalty and your good sentiments are known. I de.- perlon your attachment,: the esteem and regard which, your King will ever entertain for you, are the surest fledges of his unwearied solicitude,. to . pro.. rhqte-your prosperity and welfare by pvery;lnpano Which he has in his power. entertain the ples'ing hope that you, on your part,.' will never frustrate the confidence which I place,.ia you, poctiestroy the ; brilliant prospe& which now opens to your Given in our Royal Palace in Cai s el, th e Ist of . March, 1810. (Signed) JEROME NAPOLEON. (Rotterdam Gazette, March r 5.) NANCY, MARCH 6.—Her Majesty the Empress' is expected at Strasburgh from Vienna on the 17th, and will take on the lath her departure from thence a fdr Compiegne, through the department of the •Manthe. We understand that a detachment of '3OO hussars is to arrive here on, the 11th of this' mOnth, and 50 bus..ars have also been ordered to' ,every place where relays are stationed for her Ma jesty's passage. . BERLIN, FEB. 22.—A1l the intelligence we re ceive from Paris is of the most satisfactory nature our new Minister, General Krusmark, has expe rienced the most distinguished reception on the part of the Emperor Napoleon. < .It is wry probable that the severe measures which our Government has lately adopted with regard to the admission of neu tral ships in our ports, are owing to some conversa tion which our' Ambassador lad in , Paris on that subjeal. As to the English %hips which in the course of last year fonnd, ;neaps to steal into our ports under American colours, will in all probability never again make their appearance. LEYDEN, MARCH t4.----Accounts from the southern parts of France contai n th e following.intel ligence relative to the state of affairs in Spain. The operations against Portugal are likely - to be soon commenced. The Duke of Abrantes, who in ail probability is to direcl them, has set out from Burgos. Troops. arrive from all parts to join his ' army. Marshal Ney, who with part of his, army had advanced into the kingdom of Leon, and esta blished his head-quarters at Astorga, has since de. (ached some of his troops to the southward, in or der`to form a junetion with General Herdeler, who, ed interim, commands the second corps. This Ge peral occupies the Banks of the Tagus, in order Fa overawe the army of the Duke del Parque, which is again commanded .by the Marquis de la Roinana, who has taken up a. position in the vicinity of Bada- • joz, but is not likely long to maintain that position, as the Marshal Duke of Treviso_ is already on his march to ad against him, in concert with the se cond corps. TO HIS, EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF FELTRI, MINI- STER AT WAR. GERONA, FEB. 23.—1 have the honour to inform your Excellency. of the successful issue of an engage rnent, on ttie 20th'inst. in the plain of Vick. td this battle, one of the most nonourdble to the French.troops Of all 'the operations of the, war in Catalonia, they manifested the greatest. zeal and in trepikity. Sp:.nigli trim pa .A the line consisted o f 12,000, to which w . cre, added 1200. cavalry, and Seve , al thousands of armed peasantry, known by the names,of miqudets andsotr:ateneS. At seven o'clock in the' morning the enemy en , -1 tered the plain of 'Mich, in thiee columns. enemy ,commenced the attack upon Guip wAlt such impetuosity, lbw_ it almost seemed to be the ,princi pat point .to which he 'Was to diret.t his' etiorts.---. General Sonham, how ever, did n'ot fall is to this snare., The enemy, who opposed to us ii,s picked troops, Wand particularly two S;;viss, regiruenti, ad l'auced,to the attack with great intrepidity, at the same time pushing forward the whole of his cavalry' by 01s; i'ight, in order to ont-flank our left. ~Geir. Souha,n, upon this, attacked hi s left w i t h ,ttre 24th regiment of 'dragoons , - .supported by the picked com pany of % Napoleotr's•dragoons. - This attack com pletely discownfited the enemy's cavalry, and threw , them into the utmost disorder. • A great number of the Spanish cavaliers fell upon this 'oet asion, and 30 horses plunged into a ditch, out of which it way impossible to extricate them. At the same moment, Colonel Delord was Wounded with a sabre in the left arrri.' The enemy, in thr!ir retrt , a,,' sufre'red greatly from the fire - of our musketry, and, the grape-shot with which the artillery played upon. them. The'Spanish General then brought up- the whole of 'his reserve, and endeavoured to for C e. his wap through 'oar centre, making a furiouS atta*-,npon . . the 42d regiment, which was under the con.mand, Of Colonel Espert, whose doaths were pierceil v itti. bullets. This regiment, with the battalion 'of tbe . 93d; sustained the heaviest fire tor three . hours, without the enemy's gaining an inch 'of gryund upon them. Tired of his fruitless'efforts.to break throu) our centre, O'Donnel, the Commander in Chief of the enemy's force, resolved at once by a bold manoeuvre, and the aid.at a superiority of nutubets of -more than three to one, to turn both flanks of our line; but he did not succeed any better in this attempt. In this state of the battle, the of Divi sion Souham, for whose merit and exalted military talents I feel the highest esteem, received, a wound with a musket ball on the left temple, which en , dangers the loss of his eye; but,. at all events, wg have nothing to fear for the life of, so clistingqishcd. a Commander, and one Who 'has sd usefully seiverd his Sovereign and his Country. Notvi!itt'stz!ticlitig his very severe wound, this Commaiider, who posk... sesses the confidence of his troopS in the highest ' degree, madela shifi, as soon as it was dressed, .0 return to the head of his. brave 'felloi'ws„ r whom continued! to leads on until the termination of - the; battle. General Augeroab; the only brigatli&-Ge'••.; neral in kthe division, assumed the chief comm an d' during his absence. -. O'D,o i; thei pushed' 'forward bye his left a c.t -, ltitnn of „infahiry, -which. was suppoited• by 'the.whole of his cavalry; but a chargé, ordered; at that very instant, and executed by the 24th retli; ment ofdragoons . , the ad provUonal regiment of chassiiiirs; and a gcradron of Napoleon's drzigoons,: - completely- cot off this colurim, • which consisted of .SwiJs; a thtJustut4 . .rnen laid clown their arms, and r~ 1